Henry A. Wallace

world needs something in larger scale. Mel Gibson gave the world opportunity of enjoyment and education at the same time, by producing a movie called Braveheart. The movie Braveheart is about a peasant boy of the end of the 13th century, William Wallace (Mel Gipson), that grows up into a warrior. After the loss of his father and his wife he rebels…

1954 Brown vs Board of Education was a big court case about segregation. Right after Brown won the court case America was in a hell hole. Then in 1963 two speeches that were about segregation will never be forgotten. Staring with governor George Wallace and his “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever” speech, then 6 months later Doctor Martin Luther King gave his “I HAVE A DREAM” arguing against Wallace’s speech. Both having Logos, Ethos, Pathos and Kairos, these two speeches can…

Eighner. Wallace Stegner writes about a dump as more poetic and exciting than people in “The Town Dump.” All three have in common the use of one device; figurative language. It is used to both enhance thematic and stylistic essence and convey attitude towards the subject matter. When looking at a dump for…

William Wallace He stands in front of his small army, gazing at them. Many of these men have heard mystical stories about him, such as being six or seven feet tall and having a very large sword (Wallace 700 2005). Stories have even said he could crush a man’s skull with his bare hands. As he looks at them, to prepare them for battle he says, “They may take away our lives, but they’ll never take away our freedom (Braveheart)!” Wallace probably never said these words in such a dramatic fashion,…

Harry Daniels was an honourary Métis member, leader, social activist, author, and actor who was born September 16, 1940, in Regina, Saskatchewan. Daniels spent over 40 years in the national and international Aboriginal political arenas, fighting for the rights of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. Influenced by the Labour Movement and the Civil Rights Movement, he was one of the founding members of both the Saskatchewan Métis Society and the Native Council of Canada. He served as Vice President of the…

The movie I picked was The Trench written and directed by William Boyd. It was released in the United States November 22, 2000, and starred Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, and Julian Rhind-Tutt. The movie starts off in the summer of 1916 and shows the British Army getting ready for the Somme Offensive. It opens up with some information on the setting, “while hundreds of thousands of soldiers massed in the rear, a small force was left to hold the trenches” (The Trench). The movie gives us an…

George C Wallace also known as “the fighting little judge” was born in the state of alabama in 1919, grew up as a farmer and took boxing when he was a young boy. He later than went to the university of alabama for law and graduated with a law degree in 1942. After school, he decided he wanted to join the u.s army air corps and fought in the world war 2 and then later being disabled from war. He fought in the war but then decided to return home to his wife and start his political life again. He…

politics. William Wallace fought for not only the independence of himself, but also the people around him. Finally, there was William Marshal who was so…

Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace is known for developing a theory of evolution using natural selection aside from the greater known, Charles Darwin. Wallace lived to be 90 years old, which is surprising for a man in that time period. He was born on January 8th, 1823 and lived till November 7th, 1913. His childhood was taken place in Kensington Cottage, southeastern Wales. His middle name was spelled weirdly due to a mistake at the time of registering his birth, which was never…

The Harlem Renaissance was a time when black artists and authors both expressed their cultural ways. Though Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, is more of retaliation to the way people depict black culture today. In 1929 Harlem Renaissance author Wallace Thurman wrote a story titled The Blacker The Berry, about a black girl that his judged because she is told that she is too black, even by other black people. Kendrick Lamar also wrote a song with the same title and it is mainly about how black…